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crowley said:

chasm said:

a revolution in payment technology spearheaded by Apple

I think this one might be severely underestimated.  Not just on the high street either, I used ApplePay for the first time for an internet purchase a few days ago and it was a revelation; I actually exclaimed "That's it?" when I was done, because I was sure there must be something else to do, it was that easy.

I don't use it so much on the high street because my preferred credit card doesn't yet support it, but I've used it a few times with another card that does and it's pretty amazing.

I wonder how much Apple is turning over from it, do they break it out in their financials at all?  Even if it's not making a significant profit, it's a fantastic implementation,

indiekiduk said:

I feel sorry for Tim and his family that he got a pay cut. But I feel more sorry for all of us who got a failed watch, delayed air pods, no more displays or airports, cancelled car, a 4 year old iPhone case design and a MBP with no ports and the wrong battery. I don't know what Tim's issue has been but I have faith he can turn it around this year, last year he made a lot of failed promises, this year I hope his actions speak louder than his words. Learning to type and use a Mac would be a great start, even just touching or holding a Mac at a keynote, that would make us happy.

altivec88 said:

jkichline said:

rogifan_new said:

There are legitimate questions about the Mac lineup. It's pretty bad when even John  Gruber is like WTF Apple regarding the Mac Pro. What reason do they have for not updating it for 3 years and not reducing the price? If Apple doesn't want to be in the pro market then discontinue the product. Same thing with the router business. Those products are woefully out of date. Either update them or kill them. But it does call into question why Apple seems to be struggling from a bandwith perspective. Other than the iPhone - which they have no choice but to update every year at the same time - it seems like it's a struggle to get stuff out the door. Is Apple's functional org structure hurting them? Would things be different if there was one person responsible for the Mac and nothing else?

It's simple. The Skylake architecture for the E5 class of Xeon processors was originally road mapped for Late 2015 and haas been delayed by Intel until early 2017.  It has nothing to do with Apple, it has everything to do with their vendor, Intel.

Not True at all.   The lack of a MacPro is 100% completely on Apple's shoulders.

The Xeon E5 has been refreshed twice since 2013.  Although the refreshes were not dramatic if you compare the same core count (12 core vs 12 core),  the updated Xeon E5v4 maxes out at 22 cores where as the E5v2 that Apple is using maxes out at 12 cores.  With Apple's poor decision to rip out a whole processor for the sake of smallness set them behind right from the start, you would think they would be more vigilant to keep up with core counts when a processor is available.  For those of us that require cores, a 22 core is a significant leap over 12.  The 44 core systems utilizing 2 CPU's that competitors are selling make the MacPro look like cruel joke.

Since they did not change the pricing throughout the past 3 years, even if the E5 was not refreshed by intel (which as I explained above that it was), there were major advancements in GPU's,  IO,  SSD's  that they could have easily slowly refreshed in that time.   An update does not need to be dramatic with much fanfare.  If they would have simply kept up with current tech on a $10k computer, we would have bought several throughout the last couple of years.   The blatant ignoring of the product, with no price drops to compensate for the lower costs they are paying for old tech, has made us buy none.   This has turned our once happy to be using Apple products company frustrated and angry beyond belief.   

SpamSandwich said:

Gore should probably get the boot. He's brought nothing to Apple as far as keeping them ahead of the curve in political matters. Apple should've been neutral during the election, in anticipation of it going either way. Now Tim has a tougher go of it trying to play catchup with an administration that is opposed to 90% of Apple's bleeding heart Progressive rubbish.

bulk001 said:

After using them for a few hours I realized how wires used to get in the way or tug at my ears every time I'd zip up my coat and go out. Absolutely love them.    

Have you done any semi-serious exercises (running a couple of miles, working weight machines etc.) with them in? If so, how do you feel the do in terms of staying in? I have tried a lot of wired and BT headphones but have never been happy with them for workout purposes and would be curious to get a users perspective if you had one.